Posted on 08/27/2010 6:05:41 AM PDT by FrogMom
Edited on 08/27/2010 10:55:31 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Wasn’t this great! How are you getting out?
Did you see lines for the metro yet?
I checked the C-SPAN website schedule, but the only reference there right now containing Beck’s name is for a talk by some jerk who wrote a book critical of Beck.
Sorry, I am/was not there. Hope you get home safe and sound.
Thanks for resizing that photo!
Awesome shot. And that doesn’t even include looking back at the wash monument.
Wonder how many were there.
I’m not there, I am up here. :)
How exciting.
Great pic. I this I see us! LOL!
For anybody else who is still tryin to get on the Metro at the Smithsonian, at the big long line, We went to 7th and Maryland (L’Enfant Plaza) and got right on.
That looks like New Carrollton where we were going to get on until we saw that line. We drove to Seat Pleasent and got right on and arrived as Sarah was speaking but couldn’t hear well. Too far back yet.
It was a great day!
CSPAN will be reairing the event at 1:00 AM Sun morning to 4:20 AM
Maybe I can manage to correctly record it with my DVD recorder.
I’ll bet you were glad you were thete, though, hot sun and all.
just a quick note... three of us went down and i brought my video camera in case of trouble... we got to the new carrolton metro and the line to get in was five wide and atleast 300 yards long... just to get in the metro and buy fare tickets... we opted to drive into dc...
lincoln memorial is at 23rd street... we parked at the watergate hotel for 10 bucks all day... sweet.
walked to the memorial... couldn’t get close to the stage... packed. so we thought we’d walk down the mall a bit and then cut over to see...
world war II memorial was packed with spectators... beautiful memorial... couldn’t get close... walked to the washington monument where things opened up. this was about 10:45... lovely setting with the lincoln memorial and all the people.... 150,000 is a modest estimate... people come and go... it was blistering in the sun... lots of people in the shade off to the sides. stopped by the sharpton rally point... no one there... they wrapped up early i suppose...
9 protestors that i saw.. maybe 10... three groups... one where we came in denouncing our racists views... then a threesome of young 17 year olds that held views that conservatives voted against civil rights... they were being interviewed by someone... the camera guy was asked why he chose those three instead of the 1000s around... i asked them if mlk jr was a democrat or republican... they didn’t know. i told them to google it.
there were 10 african americans there hawking god2.com and michaelwarns.com about knowing the truth and they had signs saying the democrats started the kkk and they were very vocal but no news crews were around... hmmmmmm...
ok, not so quick a note, but a great day... glen spoke eloquently and will be taken out of context.
i will post a video sometime...
teeman
t33man8r on youtube... check out the 9-12 rally from 2009
The jets flying over were commercial aircraft taking off from Reagan International Airport.
The only other aircraft was a helicopter that flew several times up one side of the mall and down the other. We thought it might be Becks crowd counters, but he mentioned, when they flew over while he was on stage, that they were violating the airspace so I guess they weren’t his.
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